- Jun 20, 2015
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Hey guys,
Long time reader, first time answer seeker here. I have little tech experience especially with the hardware I'm working with. I can pretty much name parts of a computer, tell you what they do and how to put them together. I only have experience working on a couple common computers like my Dell. I'm fighting with a new computer and I'm pretty close to giving up and bringing it to geek squad, I'm just very broke. I thought I'd ask the site before I completely gave up, so here I am. Hopefully someone makes me feel really stupid and has the answer (please someone have an answer I will be forever grateful)
I was recently gifted a much better PC from a relative, and told it needed a new HD. Upon receiving the new PC I removed my sata HD from my dell (a Seagate barracuda 750 GB HD) and put it in the new computer. By the way, the mother board of this PC is a Supermicro X7DSAL-E (a brand I have no experience with). The computer boots to the Supermicro logo, and passes the options to open up the bios and setup no problem. When it starts to boot windows from the HD, it freezes on the windows loading logo, and restarts the entire computer. After restart, I have the option to perform windows repair. But the repair just runs for hours on end, to no end. I have gone into the Bios to check that the computer even recognizes the HD other hardware and it does. I've even changed the boot order around to put the SATA in highest priority and tried on default boot settings as well. When I eventually gave up I put the HD back in my dell, no problems with it at all. So I know this thing isn't broken.. Did I miss something when I was installing the HD??
My only guess is that I need a new version of windows.. but I honestly have no idea what I'm doing here. I don't want to screw this computer up with my inexperience.. Should I geek squad?
Long time reader, first time answer seeker here. I have little tech experience especially with the hardware I'm working with. I can pretty much name parts of a computer, tell you what they do and how to put them together. I only have experience working on a couple common computers like my Dell. I'm fighting with a new computer and I'm pretty close to giving up and bringing it to geek squad, I'm just very broke. I thought I'd ask the site before I completely gave up, so here I am. Hopefully someone makes me feel really stupid and has the answer (please someone have an answer I will be forever grateful)
I was recently gifted a much better PC from a relative, and told it needed a new HD. Upon receiving the new PC I removed my sata HD from my dell (a Seagate barracuda 750 GB HD) and put it in the new computer. By the way, the mother board of this PC is a Supermicro X7DSAL-E (a brand I have no experience with). The computer boots to the Supermicro logo, and passes the options to open up the bios and setup no problem. When it starts to boot windows from the HD, it freezes on the windows loading logo, and restarts the entire computer. After restart, I have the option to perform windows repair. But the repair just runs for hours on end, to no end. I have gone into the Bios to check that the computer even recognizes the HD other hardware and it does. I've even changed the boot order around to put the SATA in highest priority and tried on default boot settings as well. When I eventually gave up I put the HD back in my dell, no problems with it at all. So I know this thing isn't broken.. Did I miss something when I was installing the HD??
My only guess is that I need a new version of windows.. but I honestly have no idea what I'm doing here. I don't want to screw this computer up with my inexperience.. Should I geek squad?
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